Police Prepare Drill for Plague at School

I have to wonder, when is the public going to realize that all the hype the Department of Homeland Security stirs up is just that, hype. This country is amidst a recession and this city in Illinois is having a military style exercise encompassing a “plague.” How much did that cost the taxpayer?

Citizens infected with a fictitious pneumonic plague will line up outside Lincoln Prairie Elementary School on Saturday to help test the site as a medication dispensary in case of an emergency.

The Lake in the Hills Police Department is carrying out the test as part of a grant from the McHenry County Department of Health for its emergency health plan. In case of a biological terrorist attack or widespread disease outbreak, the site would be able get medicine to the community, Lake in the Hills Chief of Patrol Services David Brey said.

“This is just a functional test of the site,” he said.

The event will use volunteers pretending to have been stricken by the plague to help test the flow of the site, from initial triage through receiving proof of being medicated.

“We picked the plague on purpose so it would have nothing to do with the swine flu,” Brey said.

Please, this stuff is as useful as playing a round of Dungeon and Dragons…it’s all fiction. At this point I’d expect Nancy Pelosi to fly in to the Illinois town on one of her new acquired Congressional helicopters (Congress One). She could hold a news conference drawing attention to the factoid that a government mandated health care system would do a better job of taking care of the people after “a biological terrorist attack or widespread disease outbreak” than the private sector.